[6492] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xmcd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Mon Sep 15 14:38:55 1997
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>, chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>,
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU,
bug-audio@MIT.EDU, consultdev@MIT.EDU, joanna@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 14:38:33 EDT
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:23:23 -0400 John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes
|>
|> [ Added bug-audio and consultdev to the cc list ]
|>
|> Chad wrote:
|> | > It was, at, I believe, a request from me. I would like the number of
|> | > installed versions of xmcd to be `1'.
|>
|> Jered concurred:
|> | I agree; there shold be only one version, and it should be a version
|> | that functions on all platforms.
|> |
|> | athena% ls /mit/consult/arch/*/bin/xmcd
|> | /mit/consult/arch/sun4c_41/bin/xmcd /mit/consult/arch/sun4m_51/bin/xmcd
|> | /mit/consult/arch/sun4c_411/bin/xmcd /mit/consult/arch/sun4m_53/bin/xmcd
|> | /mit/consult/arch/sun4c_51/bin/xmcd /mit/consult/arch/sun4m_54/bin/xmcd
|> | /mit/consult/arch/sun4c_53/bin/xmcd /mit/consult/arch/sun4x_55/bin/xmcd
|>
|> Just to re-iterate, there are 3 places xmcd seems to want to go:
|>
|> The sipb locker
|> The consult locker
|> The audio locker
|>
|> I believe we have a commitment from Jered to support xmcd in the sipb
|> locker.
|>
|> The consult locker installation appears to be defunct; it never was installe
*d
|> for multiple platforms.
|>
|> The audio locker installation is somewhat dated and there appears to be
|> no support commitment whatsoever associated with it (rather the contrary,
|> given /mit/audio/README:
|>
|> This is the audio locker. The purpose of the locker initially was to
|> provide a dumping space for some sounds, but a few programs made their
|> way in.
|>
|>
|>
|> Therefore, are there any objections on the part of the audio or consult
|> maintainers in moving xmcd to the sipb locker?
|>
I guess I'm the consult maintainer of xmcd. I originally installed
it as an alternative to workman for the suns. I never intended to support
other platforms. I didn't remove it before this because the consult version
seemed to work more reliably than the sipb version. If a reliable version
is installed in sipb I have no problem removing it from consult and
putting a script there to point people to the sipb locker. Also, cda
and the other xmcd related programs should be installed as well. (they
aren't in the audio locker)
Brett
